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The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

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Release Date: Oct 21, 1938 Wide

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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles upon a dead body and a car fleeing the scene of the crime. She alerts the police but the corpse has disappeared by the time they arrive, and the lieutenant, knowing of her madcap reputation, believes she was playing a practical joke. After newspaper editor Peter Ames (Henry Fonda) takes her to task in print, she sues him for libel and enlists the aid of her society

Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.

Drama, Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Directed By: Leigh Jason

Written By: Philip G. Epstein, Wilson Collison

In Theaters: Oct 21, 1938 Wide

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck
Melsa Manton
Henry Fonda
Peter Ames
Sam Levene
Lt. Mike Brent
Frances Mercer
Helen Frayne
Stanley Ridges
Edward Norris
Whitney Bourne
Pat James
Vicki Lester
Kit Beverly
Ann Evers
Lee Wilson
Catherine O'Quinn
Dora Fenton
Linda Terry
Myra Frost
Eleanor Hansen
Jane
Hattie McDaniel
Hilda
James Burke
Sgt. Sullivan
Paul Guilfoyle
Bat Regan
Penny Singleton
Frances Glesk
Leona Maricle
Sheila Lane
Kay Sutton
Gloria Hamilton
Miles Mander
Fred Thomas
John Qualen
Subway watchman
Grady Sutton
District Attorney's Sec...
Olin Howland
Mr. X/Red the Safecrack...
Irving Bacon
Spengler the Process Se...
Eddy Chandler
Detective
Otto H. Fries
Charles Halton
Popsy the Lawyer
Vinton Haworth
Peter's Secretary
George Magrill
Policeman
Matt McHugh
Waiter
Robert Middlemass
District Attorney
Leonard Mudie
Managing Editor
Ted Oliver
Detective
Emory Parnell
Doorman
Jack Rice
Doctor
Walter Sande
Investigator
Charles Trowbridge
Pierre Watkin
Clarence H. Wilson
Jack Arnold
Peter's Secretary
Mary Jo Desmond
Extra
Buck Mack
David Ward
D.A.'s Secretary
Vickie Lester
Sam Levine

Critic Reviews for The Mad Miss Manton

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A mildly funny screwball comedy-mystery thriller that is overall more thirties stylish than witty.

June 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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The Mad Miss Manton succeeds as a romantic comedy more than it succeeds as a mystery.

November 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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Matt Bailey

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Stanwyck is fun to watch as leader of a gang of idle Park Avenue society women who try to solve a murder outside the law and Henry Fonda's newspaper. Some silly sequences and questionable romance between the stars, which includes Fonda threatening to beat some sense into Barbara three different times - now there's a

May 20, 2011

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What a delightful murder mystery comedy, Barbara Stanwyck is amazing as always, she and Henry Fonda make a great teaming. Very entertaining, great pace and well produced. Snappy well written screenplay.

January 1, 2010

James Higgins

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